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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?
(a) surrender
(b) hiding
(c) diplomacy
(d) war
2. In political systems, what are the two avenues of laws?
(a) One is by a constitution and the other is by police power.
(b) One is by traditions, and the second is by innovation.
(c) One is by revolution, and the other is by civil disobedience.
(d) One is their own written laws, the other is laws of the sovereign.
3. What is needed to be able to judge what is just or unjust?
(a) contracts
(b) lawyers
(c) judges
(d) statistics
4. When many people first get together, what are they called?
(a) A mob
(b) A hodge podge
(c) A multitude
(d) A gaggle
5. How does Hobbes define liberty?
(a) the right to vote
(b) the absence of opposition
(c) the first basic need
(d) time off from work
6. Where can a monarch go for advice?
(a) counsel he has appointed for that purpose
(b) public opinion polls
(c) special elections
(d) only to God
7. When is there nothing illegal or unjust in any action done by anyone?
(a) when there are guidelines
(b) when no one is looking
(c) when the commonwealth is too spread out
(d) when there is no commonwealth
8. What does Hobbes say about controlling thoughts?
(a) The commonwealth controls thoughts.
(b) Thought should not be controlled.
(c) People cannot always do it.
(d) People learn to do it at an early age.
9. How does Hobbes classify the person or group of people who have someone speak for them?
(a) As helpless
(b) As uneducated
(c) As actors
(d) As dummies
10. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?
(a) planning, acting, and rejoicing
(b) thinking, eating, and reading
(c) writing, feeling, and sleeping
(d) breathing, blood flow, and other bodily functions
11. Why must people create a covenant or agreement to give power to one person, or small group of people?
(a) Some think too highly of themselves or blow things out of proportion.
(b) Too many cooks spoil the broth.
(c) It is not possible to assemble all the people all the time.
(d) That is the natural way of doing things.
12. Why does Hobbes contend that no sovereign can do wrong to anyone under his authority?
(a) There is divine Right of Kings.
(b) The sovereign is led by God.
(c) They entered into the contract to create the sovereign.
(d) The sovereign is exempt from making mistakes.
13. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?
(a) Offer plans for governing change
(b) Last for days or even months
(c) Excite the multitude to create change
(d) Serve no useful purpose
14. What happens in an assembly that cannot happen with a monarch?
(a) A monarch cannot disagree with himself.
(b) A monarch has to listen to the nobles.
(c) An assembly never has to come to a conclusion.
(d) An assembly wears whatever clothes they want.
15. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?
(a) money and gifts
(b) power and control
(c) counsel and command
(d) charisma and intelligence
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?
2. How does Hobbes identify political systems?
3. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?
4. How does Hobbes define a monarchy?
5. Why does Hobbes say that virtue is comparative?
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